New South Wales

Clocks forward or back? Daylight saving is almost here

SBS News

2 Oct 2026 05:45 AEST Summary

Summarized version

Daylight saving begins on Sunday 4 October 2026. Daylight saving will continue until Sunday 4 April 2027, when clocks move back by one hour.

The report’s most important sentence, shortened and in plain words. How

From the report

Daylight saving will continue until Sunday 4 April 2027. Broken Hill in western NSW follows South Australia's time zone and observes daylight saving.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

SBS News Clocks forward or back? Daylight saving is almost here plain
The Guardian Australia Daylight savings 2026: when does daylight saving start in Australia and do clocks go forward or back? Here’s when the time will change plain

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How it is written

Niral Score 11.8 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 35 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on SBS News’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
SBS Newsas they published this story	11.8	6	35	0.1	50
The Guardian Australia	13.8	6	18	0.1	54.2
The Guardian Australia	13.8	6	18	0.1	54.2

The Guardian Australia, The Guardian Australia scored identically because they filed the same copy — they share a newsroom. Identical rows here are syndication, not agreement.

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The same event elsewhere

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The Guardian Australia Daylight savings 2026: when does daylight saving start in Australia and do clocks go forward or back? Here’s when the time will change Niral 13.8 · mostly calm political 0 The Guardian Australia Daylight savings 2026: when does daylight saving start in Australia and do clocks go forward or back? Here’s when the time will change Niral 13.8 · mostly calm political 0